The Geneva peace talks have gridlocked as the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition has withdrawn once again, slamming the UN’s diplomatic mediator for “bias.” The Syrian government has reproved the move, blaming the opposition for derailing the negotiations.

“What the Riyadh faction or the so-called Group of Saudi Arabia announced confirms what we have already revealed to public opinion: the Israeli-Saudi-Turkish will to derail inter-Syrian negotiations in Geneva,” Syria’s Chief Negotiator Bashar Jaafari said.“The Saudi Arabia faction only waited two days to announce this commitment to derail the talks, and this is proof that these negotiators do not have the political will essential to establish a serious and responsible dialogue.”

In Russia, which has long been trying to help Syria put end to its five-year civil war, the HNC’s pause was met with clear disappointment.

“The halt of HNC’s participation in the talks is, unfortunately, an evidence that extremists prevail in the composition of this delegation, which from the outset did not want any negotiations and put forward preconditions and ultimatums, and, in fact, continues to rely on the continuation of the bloody armed conflict in the country,” Borodavkin, said.

BASHAR JAAFARI: Number one, we are not regime. In Syria, there is no regime. There is a government. We are the legitimate government and I am representing this legitimate government at the United Nations. So nobody has the right to monopolise or to deform our representativity. So we may start with freeing and liberating Aleppo and then Palmyra and then Raqqa. We have the duty to liberate all these important historical cities in Syria. So, whether it is Aleppo or Raqqa or Deir ez-Zor…

…in Syria, you have a huge international war by proxies. The CIA has its proxies, the Pentagon has its proxies, the Israelis have their proxies, the Saudis, the Turks, the Qataris have their proxies, the French have their proxies and all kinds of these international mafia is fighting in Syria, killing the Syrian people for – in favour of foreign agendas. So it is not a Syrian-Syrian war. It is Syria fighting an international war by proxies on the Syrian soil…

…Any – any scenario aiming at tailoring the future of Syria by foreigners is not acceptable by the Syrians…

A team of experts including Americans are overseeing and supervising all papers and responses which the “Riyadh opposition” delegation submits to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, according to sources in the UN.

The sources also said that the delegation’s response to the paper submitted by the Syrian Arab Republic delegation at the Syrian talks in Geneva outlining the “basic elements of a political solution” of the crisis will be under the full supervision of this team.

“Approving these principles will open a serious dialogue under Syrian leadership without foreign intervention and without preconditions,” he added.

The sources mentioned that the “Riyadh opposition” delegation has postponed a scheduled meeting with the UN envoy today so that to let the American experts look the paper through.

This article, written by Finian Cunningham, journalist for international affairs, editor and writer in the major news media organisations for over 20 years, originally is appeared the first time the 4 of February 2016 on the ‘American Herald Tribune’.

We submit this editorial to your attention simply because it expresses perfectly, in a linear, clearly and in a few words, what is the feeling and the thought of all of us in the newsroom…and not only in this newsroom, but also among the majority of you all.
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(Finian Cunningham) ~ Syrian state forces have every right to extirpate all illegally armed groups on the sovereign territory of Syria. While the Geneva negotiations were in process, the main foreign conduits of military supply to the mercenaries –Turkey and Saudi Arabia –had not desisted from their illegal interference in Syria. That was in flagrant violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions in November and December calling for a global clampdown on terrorist organizations.

Not only were Turkey and Saudi Arabia continuing to supply illegally armed groups inside Syria, these two Western allies had included terrorist organizations into the so-called “opposition”at the Geneva talks. The grandly named High Negotiating Committee demanded it would only continue participating on the condition that the Assad government eventually stands down. That’s the real, proximate reason for breakdown, no matter what John Kerry might say.

Can you believe it? A bunch of foreign-backed and exiled-based terrorists dictating terms to the elected government of Syria. Their foot-soldiers are getting wiped out on the ground –after five years of inflicting destruction on Syria –and yet these impostors are attempting to write the “peace terms”… … …

The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic arrived in Geneva on Friday to participate in the Syrian-Syrian talks under the auspices of the United Nations. The delegation is scheduled to meet the UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at 6:00 pm Damascus time.

Russian President’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met a delegation of the Syrian national opposition in Moscow. The delegation included Elian Masaad, Secretary of the National Conference Party/A Secular Syria/ and official spokesman for the Syrian National Work Committee, Barwin Ibrahim, leader of the Syrian Youth for Development Party, sheikh Nawaf al-Milhem, General Secretary of the People’s Party and representative of the Syrian tribes and Tareq al-Ahmad, member of the leadership of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

HNC (High Negotiations Committee) represents a coalition of 15 “moderate” opposition (moderate cannibal terrorists) factions that were put together in Saudi Arabia last month. The group said earlier that it would not join the negotiations unless 1) Bashar Assad’s government abandoned sieges of settlements, 2) put a stop to air strikes, 3) release numerous captives (terrorists).

Despite the positive statements of De Mistura, if these are the premises, we do not believe that these meetings will produce anything good, while the only fields on which it is possible to solve the Syrian crisis are the battlefields and the direct reconciliations amongst people on Syrian soil.

This article, written by Finian Cunningham, journalist for international affairs, editor and writer in the major news-media organisations for over 20 years, originally is appeared the first time the 25 of January 2016 on the ‘American Herald Tribune’.
We would like to propose it because is extremely truthfully and forthright: definitely not politically correct.
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(Finnian Cunnigham) ~ The main problem resides with the United States and Saudi Arabia both insisting that two militant groups should be part of the opposition to the Syrian government.

Those groups are Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) and Ahrar al-Shams (Nation of Syria).

Both are connected logistically and ideologically with Al Qaeda terror groups, including the so-called Islamic State.

The delay in the Geneva talks getting underway is because the Syrian government and its foreign ally, Russia, stipulate that neither Jaish al-Islam nor Ahrar al-Islam are allowed at the negotiating table.

Because they are terrorist organizations.

The purpose for their inclusion is to expedite Washington’s agenda of regime change in Syria, and has nothing to do with finding a genuinely peaceful settlement.

What the media should be saying is that the political talks on Syria are being held to ransom by the insistence of including terrorist groups in the negotiations.

And the people insisting on the terror groups partaking are Washington and its regional Arab allies.

That truth is far too grim to admit to public knowledge and discussion.

For such truth would indict Washington as a terror sponsor, answerable to international law.

…and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also if very reluctantly, would seems is accepting it, even if Michael Bogdanov (Russian President’s Special Envoy and Deputy Foreign Minister) stated that “Only Syrians decide who would participate on talks in Geneva”.

The blackmail with which John Kerry would threaten Lavrov would be to accuse Russia at the Security Council of the United Nations of wanting undermine the meetings of peace…while we know rather well that it is precisely the U.S. who want to boycott in any way the meeting in Geneva, trying to prolong as much as possible the armed conflicts by the mercenary gangs at their service (by Saudi-Turkish hands) and boosting the terrorist attacks against the Syrian population.
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Moscow, Michael Bogdanov : “Only Syrians decide who would participate in Geneva talks”.
Russian President’s Special Envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Bogdanov said that Geneva 3 talks are Syrian-Syrian, affirming that the Syrians alone have to decide who would participate in…

…but…

…U.S. and their allies appoint Bin Laden admirer as negotiator in Syria peace talks.
On the same day, when peace talks on Syria were to start, US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that , Jeish al-Islam, the organization founded by Osama bin Laden admirer, Zahran Allouch, would represent the anti-Assad forces in the upcoming Syrian peace talks, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov very reluctantly accepted.

Washington never thought for one minute to achieve peace and détente in the region, but only and always destabilization, in its interest and in the interests of its allies.

The Obama administration and its Zionist-Wahhabis allies were hoping for a defeated Syrian government before Geneva, but the SAAF and the forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, backed by Russian air power, are winning and gaining ground against all the differents mercenary terrorist gangs…so… now the peace talks in Geneva cannot start…

It is clear as the sunlight that the US and its allies do not want peace, but more blood and suffering for the people of Syria and the Middle East, until the barbarism will reign sovereign.
(by SFP-WP chief editor)
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(by MoonOfAlabama) ~ When the Russian campaign in Syria started Obama promised that it would end in a quagmire. Various media and opinion writer picked up that narrative. It was false as Russia was and is executing a well thought out campaign.

The Obama administration and its anti-Syrian allies had hoped for a defeated Syrian government in Geneva that would agree to their capitulation conditions. They now have to change the narrative. Peace talks in Geneva, they now argue, can not take place because the Syrian government is winning. Headlines the Washington Post – Russian airstrikes are working in Syria — enough to put peace talks in doubt.

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The US battle cry – “We do not negotiate with terrorists” – has long been an axiom of foreign policy and an excuse for military interventionism, but recently, there have been a stream of media reports asserting that the US in fact should and does negotiate with terrorists, an international lawyer in Indonesia says.

Barry Grossman told Press TV on Saturday that even US presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in an interview with the ABC on June 1, 2015, that “US policy has changed, now we make deals with terrorists.”

Asked to comment on the matter, Grossman said that “apparently, this change of policy by stealth is now so complete, that it is not of interest to anyone that a man designated as a high level al-Qaeda terrorist by special order of the US president in 2013 participated in the US-sanctioned and UN-sponsored Yemen peace talks in Geneva this week.”

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